Motat trip

Yesterday LS2, LS1 and RM 5 went to Motat in Auckland to learn about our inquiry topic STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. LS2 were with RM 5 to help make sure they were together LS2 were first making a car using cardboard, batteries, battery pack, skewers motor, fans and straws. We did this in partners my partner was Matthew. Our car was to heavy so the fan wasn't strong enough to push the car forward. After that we went to build a flashlight we had to work in a group of three it was Matthew, Giovanni and I we had to build something to make it not flicker we had to make it efficient and it was hard because there were no tips to help and not enough time. After that we had our lunch then went to have a look around parts of Motat that also help us learn more about our our inquiry topic. The teachers were Emma, Kensar and Damon. It was a good trip because everyone was having fun with the activities They were hard but fun at the same time.

Graphics

This week for Tech we were learning how to make something with using different shapes. We made a moon shape with using three cylinders we first dragged the cylinder to were it turned into a oval, then we copied and pasted it put the two ovals next to each other and the were two options a solid and a hole option. The solid option is to change the colour and the hole option was to make the shape turn transparent it only worked if we group the shapes. After making a few things on Tinkercad Mrs Ferguson showed us her drawing of trying to make Mr Anderson. We had to try to make her but it was a bit challenging to do because I couldn't find the right shapes.

Word problem-Maths game

This week we got to make our on maths game for the past two weeks and we had  to present it to the whole class today. We had to go and present with a partner so they could also present theirs. I decided to make word problems for people who don't understand can learn and hopefully get better at solving word problems. It was hard making this game because thinking of what to write and getting all of the links correct. I enjoyed this activity because I could do something that I haven't done in a while.

Matariki

This week for reading Nevaeh and I were doing a Matariki task but before we did that we had to write our ideas on a piece of paper in 3 minutes and after that we had to also write some more ideas that we could remember within 10 minutes. On our DLO we had two write what we learnt in watching the video. Matariki is celebrated by Maori's every year to celebrate the 7 stars coming to NZ